Take back that swipe: Tinder Plus to see U.S. launch in March

It looks like Tinder users in the U.S. will soon be able to undo those unfortunate accidental left-swipes. Tinder said today that the launch of its Tinder Plus service, which allows users to undo their last swipe by paying a monthly fee, is set to launch sometime in March.

The news comes via TechCrunch, which spotted a change in Tinder's Google Play description for its latest update:

Both of Tinder's mobile apps recently received updates on the respective app stores where the feature was mentioned in the app's update text – hinting at an imminent arrival. However, Tinder says that Plus is not yet being enabled for end users in the U.S. at this time – and the app's update text descriptions will be edited to reflect this.

TechCrunch also notes that, though Tinder hasn't yet announced a price for the service, Tinder Plus was rolled out in certain international test markets late last year at various price points ranging from 99 cents on the low-end to a more insane $19.99 on the high-end.

What is more annoying is you are paying to fix what is essentially a poor (overly cute) interface design. The screen has two big buttons ( X and <3 ) to do the same thing as a left or right swipe. The swipe is ambiguous (which is why people want to have the undo button) and inefficient from a human factors perspective.

It's similar to the swipe to turn a page in a reading app. It's cute and fun but ultimately wasteful and uselessly skeuomorphic. How many people are still doing that when they actually red - as opposed to tapping on the right side of the screen.

Lol, Tinder. Have you seen the ugly chicks on there? They should change the name to Stable. The only "hot" ones are either fakes or trying to get you to watch their porn site. Still tying to figure out how this site makes money.

I don't refer to them as bitches (I mean, unless if someone acts like a bitch, then I'll call them a bitch, but that's different), however, some of the girls on there...ugly doesn't do them justice. *shivers*